bar { } as one line doesnt show a bar at all

[max-ishere]

• Sway Version:

  • sway version 1.8.1

• Debug Log:

  • Sway log: https://gist.github.com/max-ishere/2f1e8498da7e83d46db6a8c82e653c88

• Configuration File: (That's it)

  bar { swaybar_command waybar }

• Description:

  • When having the bar config as one line sway doesnt show a bar at all. Splitting into many lines makes the bar appear.

[nukoseer]

When having the bar config as one line sway doesnt show a bar at all. Splitting into many lines makes the bar appear.

I think this behaviour is not directly about the bar command but how sway parses braces and subcommands. If you write your bar command without braces like bar swaybar_command waybar, I think it will work. But, if you want to put more than one subcommand with or without braces on one line like bar { position top status_command i3status } or bar position top status_command i3status, it won't work, because in these situations, sway cannot understand how to parse subcommands and thinks there is just one subcommand like position top status_command i3status but normally it is two position top and status_command i3status. So, I don't know if this is a design decision or something that should be fixed. If our intention is to fix this only when we have one subcommand like in your example, probably that is more doable.